The Folklore Program awards the most outstanding incoming student every other year with a Fellowship, which includes tuition reimbursement and a small stipend.  Fellows are expected to work fifteen hours a week on projects that will further their career in folklore.  Specific duties vary from year to year but graduate students will work closely with the Director of the Folklore Program.  Duties may include assisting the director, organizing a folklore conference, teaching a folklore class, or editorial duties.  Please contact Steve Siporin, Director of the Folklore Program, for information on how to apply for the fellowship.

All graduate students in the Folklore program are encouraged to apply for a departmental graduate instructorship.  Graduate instructors teach 1010 and 2010, the English Department’s introductory writing classes.  Instructorships are awarded on a competitive basis and include tuition reimbursement, a small stipend, and student heath insurance.  Students are responsible for teaching their own classes and instructorships are awarded on a competitive basis. Incoming students should apply for a graduate fellowship at the same time that they apply for graduate studies.  For information on graduate instructorships, including how to apply, clink on the link
http://newenglish2.usu.edu/page1724126.aspx.  You may also call or email Dr. Keith Grant-Davie, Director of Graduate Studies (435-797-3547).

Other financial information is available through the Department of English web pages. Go to:  http://newenglish.usu.edu/newgraduates.aspx and click on the link “Tuition and Financial Support.”

First year folklore students are eligible to apply for the program’s Fieldwork Award.  The fieldwork award is designed to support fieldwork that will aid a student toward the completion of a master’s thesis. The amount of the award ranges between $500–$2000 and is awarded on a competitive basis.  Students are expected to complete their fieldwork during the summer after the first year of study.  Students may also apply for the fieldwork award if they are interested in attending a field school or conducting an internship for which there is no stipend available.  Applications for the Fieldwork Award are due in January; contact the Folklore Director for more information.

Graduate students also may wish to consider applying for an internship in order to further their career.  Internships usually are completed during the summer between first and second year.  Internships are highly individualized.  Faculty are available for consultation, but students are responsible for researching available internship opportunities.  Folklore students in the past have completed internships at such regional and national organizations as the Smithsonian, The New York State Council on the Arts, National Council for the Traditional Arts, the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, Washington State Parks, the Western Folklife Center, the Montana Arts Council, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, and the Harrison Museum of Art.